The House of the Scorpion Summary

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer is an intriguing story about a young man who discovers he is a clone and must struggle to learn what this means. Matteo Alacran, a clone harvested from the DNA of El Patron, the Master of Opium, is treated poorly by the Alacran family and servants, despite his superior education and his attempts to fit in. After escaping death by fleeing to the neighboring nation...

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The House of the Scorpion, written by Farmer, Nancy is book based on a cloned boy's life. He lives on a drug farm on the border of Mexico. This boys name is Matteo Alacran a.k.a. Matt or "The Clon...
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